My lunch today consisted of a dessert parfait from the grocery store (after two days of satisfying myself with dark chocolate and hoping to go for 0 today) so I think I'm hopelessly screwed...

Fruit helps, I guess. I've tried that and it only works for a while.

The thing is I wonder what's an acceptable consumption of real sweets - I wanted to work towards a goal of once a week, maybe move on to a couple times a month or something like that. Yet even you guys seem to be advising ways to never eat the stuff again, ever, which is what I didn't want.

Learning to bake and make my own stuff would be awesome, maybe sometime in the future when I have more than a microwave and some plastic bowls to cook with. :3